With that exclamation point, "Couldn't this be magic" isn't a question.  But Gene Wolfe, in his utterly spectacular Book of the New Sun, notes that "Words are symbols.  [One] chooses to delimit magic as that which does not exist, and so it does not exist.  If you choose to call what we are about to do here magic, then magic lives while we do it."  Possibly related is Maxim Gorky on the divine: "If you believe in Him—He exists.  If you don't—He doesn't" (The Lower Depths).

From Pembroke's 1978 yearbook.  (With a bonus "Believe it if you need it" from American University's 1974 yearbook.)